Projects
Transflora - Amy’s Glowing Silk
Using NISA’s transgenic glowing silk, a large scale installation with 3000 silkworkm cocoons was exhibited. The project was comissioned by Gucci to Sputniko, the kimono-dress designed by Kushino Masaya, the fabric for which was woven and provided by HOSOO. The exhibition also traveled to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in the spring of 2016. HOSOO’s endeavours to further explore the possibilities of biotechnology in textiles continues as as a transgenic silkworm farm is developed by HOSOO in Yosano City, Kyoto